After years of talk and previous efforts to boost Southern Dallas, the city council Wednesday approved the first official Dallas Economic Development Policy.
The city is getting behind a new economic development plan intended to address long-standing inequities.
By Alex Macon
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May 26, 2021
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The Dallas City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a new economic development policy aimed at bringing economic growth to every part of Dallas, especially historically neglected communities in the southern part of the city. It includes plans to incentivize workforce housing and entrepreneurship and, most notably, calls for the creation of a nonprofit economic development corporation that can legally buy, develop, and market real estate to drum up new business.
I sounded a skeptical note when I wrote about this last week it isn’t the first time the city has pledged to bridge the long-standing divide between northern and southern Dallas. But there are reasons to believe this time is different, many of them outlined today in an editorial from the
Community Members Push For More Local Education Funding by Keri Brown Guilford County Schools is the third largest school district in North Carolina. KERI BROWN/WFDD
A group of community members held a rally in front of the Guilford County Detention Center on Wednesday evening to urge more local funding for the public school system.
They want to see funding budgeted by the county for vacant positions at the jail directed to Guilford County Schools.
County Manager Michael Halford recently presented his budget recommendation for the new fiscal year. It totals more than $670 million. It calls for freezing the current property tax rate and adding several positions, including a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager.
Neighbor of 4-year-old found dead near Dallas street says he reported suspect in case to police over a month before crib kidnapping
Time- and date-stamped footage shows what appears to be 18-year-old Darriyn Brown checking if cars are locked in a driveway. Author: Matt Howerton Updated: 10:53 PM CDT May 24, 2021
DALLAS, Texas Neighbors of 4-year-old Cash Gernon gathered Monday night with city leaders, pleading for a better police presence in their far southwest Dallas neighborhood after Gernon was found dead in the street on May 15.
His death has been ruled a homicide by the Dallas County Medical Examiner s Office.
Gernon was found by a passer-by, Antwainese Alford, on the morning of the 15th.
At committee: Shipbuilding, seniors and budget pre-study By Kady O Malley. Published on May 25, 2021 6:30am House and Senate committees are set to get back to work after a week-long parliamentary recess. (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) FINANCE, which is slated to reconvene this afternoon to hear from the Canadian Association of Retired Persons, Foundation for Black Communities, Startup Canada and Alliance de l’industrie touristique du Québec. (4 – 6 PM)
The bill is also being pre-studied by several Senate committees, including
NATIONAL FINANCE, which will host a panel discussion with the mayors of Charlottetown, Stratford and Cornwall later this morning. (10:30 – 11:30 AM)
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, MPs will begin going through the fine print of a recently released report from the federal auditor general on the National Shipbuilding Strategy, which, as per those findings, has been “slow to deliver the combat and non-combat ships that Canada needs to meet its d